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SCULLY AND HOYNE GIVE OUTVOTE FRAUD STATEMENTSIn a statement given the press lateyesterday afternoon State's AttorneyHoyne referred to the last primary"as the most corrupt primary everheld in Cook county." ""He said unqualified and disqualified personswere permitted to serve as judgesand clerke and that many judges andclerks ignored all requests or demands of challengers to ascertainthe right to vote of thousands whoseright was questionable.Hoyne also referred to a meetingin Roger Sullivan's office in the People's Gas building, Wednesday evening following the primary, and askedif Judge Scully directed Chief ClerkDennis Egan to attend the meeting,which was attended also by Frank S.Ryan, R. M. Sweitzer and Sweitzer'slawyer; and asked if Judge Scullyknew that the matter discussed atthat meeting was the express necessity of stopping the state's attorneyand the grand jury investigating 'intovote frauds.He asks if it isn't true that at thatpieeting it was decided that the bestway to stop the state's attorney wasto let the county judge and Chiefjcierg Egan handle that matter byterrorizing the police departmentnd threatening to prosecute officersassigned to the state's attorney'spffice.Hoyne also asked if Judge Scullydirected Chief Clerk Egan to call themeeting in Attorney Fyffe's office.yesterday morning for the purpose ofperfecting plans for stopping the.state's attorney and the grand juryjby drastic prosecutions of police officials. Hoyne's statement was brought..out by one given the morning papers(or publication yesterday, in whichjScuilty said that if Hoyne had broken the law the fact that he wasstate's attorney would make no difference to the court. INow Hoyne charges that Judge"Scully is apparently seeking to ob- iI strict a grand jury investigation intovotes frauds at the primary.Scully's Statement."Mr. Hoyne has no basis for thatstatement," replied Judge. Scully."He is the first to make it In fact,I have received many letters of commendation on the way the electionwas run. Considering the interest inthe election, I think it was one of thequietest."Mr. Hoyne's insinuations that Dennis Egan, chief clerk to the electionboard, attended as my representativea meeting hell in Roger Sullivan's office in the People's Gas building, toconsider ways and means for 'stopping the state's attorney,' is ridiculous. I know of no such meeting.Furthermore, neither Egan nor anyone else can represent me in anything. Mr. Hoyne can go as far ashe likes with his grand jury investigation and I will help him in everyway I can."No one in Cook county is more interested in getting celan electionsthan I and I will go as far yes, farther than Mr. Hoyne in prosecutingillegalities."Judge Scully's investigation of thevote frauds begins tomorrow.o oU. S. GETS BUSY ON SINKING OFFRYE WILL PROTESTNorfolk, Va., March 11. Representatives of State Department arrived here today and immediately instituted an inquiry into sinking ofAmerican sailing vessel Frye by German auxiliary cruisel Eitel Friedrich.Captain and crew of Frye werebrought here and taken direct to customs house where their stories wererecorded under oath.Stories of all witnesses agreed.Stated that while almost becalmed,enroute to Queenstown, they werehalted by German warship. Officerswho came on board and examinedtheir manifest characterized graincargo as contraband because consigned "on orders.".J"---